Reading in the dark

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Title:

Reading in the dark

Author:

Deane, Seamus, 1940-

ISBN:

9780099744412

Personal Author:

Deane, Seamus, 1940-

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

London : Vintage, 1997.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 20 cm

Abstract:

This first novel, akin to Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That, describes growing up in, and leaving, Northern Ireland. It is a work of anger, passion and great intensity.

Subject Term:

Families -- Northern Ireland -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Northern Ireland -- Fiction.

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A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s; a place that is also haunted by political enmities, family secrets, lethal intrigue. The boy narrator of READING IN THE DARK grows up enclosed in these two worlds, sensing that they are intertwined in some mysterious ways that he both wants and does not want to discover. Through the silence that surrounds him, he feels the truth spreading like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, READING IN THE DARK is one of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.

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